All 4 Uses of
postpone
in
David Copperfield
- Our dinner had been indefinitely postponed; but it was growing so late, that my aunt had ordered it to be got ready, when she gave a sudden alarm of donkeys, and to my consternation and amazement, I beheld Miss Murdstone, on a side-saddle, ride deliberately over the sacred piece of green, and stop in front of the house, looking about her.†
Chpt 13-15
- As it is, there's a postponement.'†
Chpt 28-30 *
- They had postponed their breakfast on my account, and we sat down to table together.†
Chpt 34-36
- My aunt reported to us, afterwards, that, at first, he was like a man playing the kettle-drums, and constantly divided his attentions between the two; but that, finding this confuse and fatigue him, and having his copy there, plainly before his eyes, he soon sat at it in an orderly business-like manner, and postponed the Memorial to a more convenient time.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(postpone) delay until a later time